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Eric Winesett
October 29, 2020 at 5:58 pm in reply to: Deleting FCPX generated files doesn’t free disk space

Okay, fixed it! Thanks! I don’t know how long it would have taken me to figure that out without your help. I understood the function of snapshots, but I still don’t exactly understand how they work.

Feel free to stop here if you don’t want to read about the confusing steps it took to actually fix it. Based on the link you gave me, I looked at Carbon Copy Cloner’s list of snapshots. There were eight: one at 9 GB size, the rest no more than 200 MB. So that didn’t seem promising. But later I noticed that in CCC’s *graph* of disk usage, it showed 305 GB of snapshots. I decided to try deleting a snapshot, choosing the oldest one which was only 50 MB. The graph updated to show only 55 GB of snapshots. This was and is still completely puzzling to me. In the Finder, nothing had changed. After a reboot, CCC was back to showing 305 GB of snapshots. I then deleted all but the most recent 9 GB snapshot. Suddenly, that one remaining snapshot in the list was changed to 305 GB! Deleted that one and that finally did the trick!
Eric Winesett
October 28, 2020 at 11:13 pm in reply to: Deleting FCPX generated files doesn’t free disk space

Thanks for the reply. The disk is APFS. It is technically not an external disk; it is the original HD in my iMac, but I am using an external Thunderbolt SSD as my startup drive.

I downloaded OmniDiskSweeper. The results are curious, because it reports 632 GB on the disk, whereas Finder reports 950 GB. That difference corresponds pretty closely to the amount I expected to gain. I’m comparing the two lists now to see what is different.